The protestors call the MOCA funding a “bribe” to support the controversial plan, which the de Blasio administration said was to fund the museum’s permanent home as part of $391 million in “neighborhood investments” to “support communities surrounding the borough-based jails through new affordable housing, youth programming, community and cultural centers.” The proposed new jail is part of de Blasio’s $9 billion plan to shut down Rikers Island, the city’s main jail complex, and replace it with four borough-based jails. The protestors also called upon MOCA to return $35 million the museum received from the de Blasio administration as part of the city’s efforts to build a new jail at the site of the Manhattan Detention Complex a few blocks away on White Street.
That was their right and the Chus wish them luck,” said Eric Phillips of Edelman PR, a spokesperson for the Chu family, in a statement Wednesday. “Jing Fong’s owners made the decision to leave the space and relocate to another location in Chinatown.
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In May, the Lam family filed an application to transfer Jing Fong’s liquor license to a much smaller 125-seat space at 202 Centre Street, the former home of Red Egg, Bowery Boogie reported.
One of the few unionized restaurants in the city, the Jing Fong workers’ union and other supporters have called on Chu to allow the restaurant owners more time pay back rent, to bring back the enormously popular banquet hall which served an estimated 10,000 customers weekly before the pandemic, and save the jobs of the workers.
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